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  • The warst we ken o 'her yet is that she's no' heedin 'ony o' us, and she micht hae waur fauts. "

    Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not 1859

  • There's another wean in there greetin 'too, an' I'm no heedin 'him neither, an' he's greetin 'twicet as loud as the auld yin.

    The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

  • Wall, it helped consid'ble many in the congregation, 'specially them that was in the habit of hearin' 'n' heedin ', but it rolled right off Dixie like water off a duck's back.

    The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • She had believt the man whan he promised to merry her, no kennin he was a leear, and no heedin the v'ice inside her that said _ye maunna_; and sae she loot him dee what he likit wi 'her, and mak himsel the father o' a bairnie that wasna meant for him.

    Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

  • It was quite true, as she had said, at such times she heard nothing of what was going on about her, because "she wasna heedin '."

    Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not 1859

  • New year's day comes and says, "Watch and pray," and yo 'say, "Nay, I'll seek feasts and market-places, and let times and seasons come and go without heedin' into whose presence they're hastening me. "

    Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • New year's day comes and says, "Watch and pray," and yo 'say, "Nay, I'll seek feasts and market-places, and let times and seasons come and go without heedin' into whose presence they're hastening me. "

    Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • "I might have known," thought he, "that the rascal could bring about nothing of the kind, an 'I am only a fool for heedin' him at all."

    The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

  • And from that seven dollars seedcorn, by judicious heedin 'of the Lord's promptin', he made hissel 'seven hundred billion dollars!!

    Irish Blogs 2008

  • "Your father's gone, and you can only be loike him by heedin 'to what I'm tellin' you about him.

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

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